Philip Abelson
Philip Hauge Abelson was an American physicist, scientific editor and science writer. Trained as a nuclear physicist, he co-discovered the element neptunium, worked on isotope separation in the Manhattan Project, and wrote the first study of nuclear marine propulsion for submarines. He later worked on a broad range of scientific topics and related public policy, including organic geochemistry, paleobiology and energy policy.
27 April 1913
Born on the same birth date (27 April 1913): Irving Adler • Luz Long
Born on the same birth day (27 April): Alan Reynolds (artist) • Charles Emmanuel III • Charles Robert Cockerell • Coretta Scott King • Derek Minter • Jack Klugman • Jason Whitlock • Jim Keltner • Ludwig Bemelmans • Meselech Melkamu • Nigel Barker (photographer) • Patrick Stump • Ruth Glick • Tim LaHaye • Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
Born in the same month (April 1913): Charles Vanik • Dave Albritton • Diosa Costello • Jules Léger • Keiko Fukuda • Louise Currie • Muddy Waters • Norman Parkinson